Honoring Leadership, Embracing the Future: A New Chapter for the WABIP Newsletter
The WABIP Newsletter has long served as an important platform for sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and connecting our global community. Much of its success is due to the exceptional leadership of Dr. Ali Musani, whose tenure as Associate Editor has made a lasting impact. Dr. Musani’s contributions have been truly significant. With a clear vision and commitment to excellence, he strengthened the Newsletter’s role as a trusted voice in interventional pulmonology READ

Two Many Nodules: A Structured Approach to Biopsy Decisions in Patients with Multiple Pulmonary Lesions
Innovation in bronchoscopy-including extended catheter reach, advanced imaging for lesion localization, improved biopsy tools, and expanded molecular diagnostics-now allow access to nearly all regions of the lung READ

Achieving Expertise in Interventional Pulmonology
The world of procedural education is changing fast in the times of AI, social media, high tech simulators and an increasing number of hands-on workshops around the world. Interventional Pulmonology (IP) training has grown significantly over the last two READ

Announcing June 2 as World Interventional Pulmonology Day
WABIP and five leading global pulmonology associations officially announce World Interventional Pulmonology Day – a unified celebration of interventional pulmonology held every June 2. READ

Best Image Contest 2026 (2 of 3)
Rare Visualization of a Diaphragmatic “Chocolate Cyst” in Bilateral Catamenial Pneumothorax: This thoracoscopic image captures a defining macroscopic view of the left hemidiaphragm in a 38-year-old female who presented with acute READ

Re-Visiting Accessing a Dry Pleural Space During Medical Thoracoscopy
Medical thoracoscopy (MT), by enabling direct visualization of the pleural cavity and targeted biopsies of the parietal pleura, plays a central role in the diagnosis of both, malignant and benign pleural conditions. MT is usually performed in patients READ